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How to download a set of printer drivers from the HP website

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Most people aren’t really conservative when it comes to keeping every little thing the printer box brings, and more often than not the original installation CD becomes lost, or can’t be found anywhere. These are very common situations, so our printer’s drivers are usually misplaced, regardless of the brand or model. This also happens with HP, one of the most sold brand in Latin America -this is not official data- because of their low prices and high quality.

These printers’ drivers get lost all the time, and some people are forced to call a technician to have them installed. Obviously, this involves spending a bit of money, but we’ve created this post to help you download and install the drivers on any printer.

Note: If you have the original user manual, please read it to learn how to do all the different procedures described in it. We assure you reading all this information will come in handy.

The main step to download these drivers directly from the manufacturer’s official website, HP in your case, is to access it from your computer. The following link will redirect you to the HP site, where you’ll be able to download multiple different drivers in Spanish. Please click here to enter; this is an external link.

After the page has opened and loaded completely, please click on the drivers and software option. A small window will appear on your screen, and you will be asked to type in your printer model. Please take a look at the following image.

drivers and software

Most printer manufacturer websites are made to help the clients, and the HP is no exception to this rule. They’ve made it much easier for the users to find their drivers just by typing their printer model, which makes the search process much quicker and more precise. Please look at the next picture.

Once you’ve written your own printer’s model, press enter on your keyboard or click on search. Some results will show up immediately, divided in two categories: 1) the primary results that coincide with your terms, and 2) the secondary results, which are not as related to your search as the primary ones.

The following picture will serve as an example of what happens when you type “laserjet 1100” in this search engine. Please look at the next picture for these particular results.

results page

After selecting the one result that fits your needs the best, please click on it to move forward with the download. We will now be taken to another site, where you will have to choose the operating system we want the drivers to be compatible with. You will also need to select a language at this point.

We’ve, of course, selected Spanish, but you can choose whatever language you’re most comfortable with. The language you choose now will be the one the printer will work in from now on. In our computer, the drivers are in Spanish because we used the Spanish version of the HP site to download them.

Now that you’re in a new site, please look at the printer depicted in it. This will help you identify if these drivers are meant to be used on the printer you chose and wish to install them in. If the picture doesn’t look exactly like the one you own, go back to the last page. There you can either make another search and/or choose a different result. The next image will show you all the results we got on the website.

download hp printer drivers

After all the drivers available for different operating systems have loaded, and we’ve selected the language we want them in, please select your own operating system and continue with the download process. Take a look at the following picture, which will show you the window where you must choose your own operating system.

select the operating system

In case your operating system doesn’t appear on this list, we recommend you download the drivers for windowsxp on your computer, look them up on “computer”, decompress and install them accordingly. We also recommend you read the following post.

After selecting the operating system installed in your computer, you will go to another page where you’ll find all the drivers that HP has created for this particular operating system.

In this site, you’ll be able to find an entire section of HP applications and drivers. There you must enter the drivers area and look for the proper set for your printer.

end drivers for download

You must be very careful when selecting the drivers, since some of them don’t involve printing tasks. This is why we suggest you only download files with the word “driver” in them, and to click on the proper download button, as indicated in the following picture.

We also recommend you save this file in your computer’s Desktop when downloading it, just so you can find it very quickly.

In case you don’t have the necessary experience for this particular procedure, or your set of drivers is causing some problems, please check the USB cable and follow the steps created by the manufacturer for this installation. These links are very helpful and are all in Spanish, as well as any other drivers we’ve recommended you and included in our posts.

If you need our help, please contact us by leaving a comment in the section below this post, and we will gladly help you out.